Saraki, Ekweremadu Accuse Fed. Govt Of Twisting Facts To Indict Them

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu have raised the alarm that the federal government has commenced the execution of a plot to implicate them and their colleagues in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last Tuesday’s invasion of the premises of the national assembly by men of the department of state service (DSS).

In a statement by their media aides, Yusuph Olaniyonu and Uche Anichukwu, the two embattled

Legislative leaders said they reached that conclusion after receiving the interim report submitted by the inspector general of police (IGP), Idris Ibrahim and realized that the presidency immediately constituted a closet panel to review the report and submit a final recommendation.

They said the mandate of this closet panel is to turn facts on their head and blame the invasion of the national assembly on both of them and then presented as having connived with the sacked director general of the DSS, Mallam Lawal Daura to stage the parliamentary security breach.

"The presidency has set up a closet panel, which would work to a predetermined conclusion in which they will now claim that the senate president and the deputy senate president worked in collusion with ex-dg of DSS, Lawal Daura to stage the invasion"

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Saraki and Ekweremadu said APC wants to shield the fact that the previous night, before the invasion and up till the early hours of Tuesday, “there was a meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senators and that the plan was for them to be moved in a coaster bus into the national assembly complex later that morning for them to purportedly remove us and select a new senate president and deputy senate president”.

Both men reiterated their earlier position that the coup against democracy as represented by the invasion must be probed through an independent judicial commission of inquiry which will produce a comprehensive report.

The presiding officers added that they have also uncovered a sinister plot in which the government plans to use the anti-graft and security agencies to incarcerate them and some members of their families from next week, all in a bid to break their will and effect their removal.